If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
TOM PETTYMy sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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